Blogroll
- A book you might like This is a book you or someone you know might like.
- Bat, Bean, Beam Everyone links to Giovanni Tiso’s blog but I don’t care. It’s too good.
- Elliot Scribblings Londoner Elliot Elam sketches people on public transport.
- Five Dials Five Dials is free online magazine edited by Craig Taylor, who seems to be a genius. In Five Dials no. 32 you can read a piece I wrote about Katherine Mansfield’s birthplace.
- Isinglass Martin Edmond’s wonderful blog.
- Let Me Be Frank Sarah Laing’s compulsively readable cartoony blog on reading, writing, parenting, angsting.
- Oliver Burkeman My favourite writer on self-help. He really hates “The Secret”.
- The Animalarium This blog gladdens the heart. Celebrates animals (worldly and otherworldly) in illustration and design.
- The London Review of Breakfasts Dinner parties are mere formalities; but you invite a man to breakfast because you want to see him. (On the LRB, I have reviewed as Egg Miliband.)
- The Subversive Copyeditor Carol Fisher Saller is my editing hero.
- The VUP blog I work as an editor at Victoria University Press, and this is our blog.
- Twitter Poetry Night I ran a project where you could listen to people on Twitter reading poems.
I’m on Twitter sometimes
- RT @pacificraft: Creative NZ cutting and cutting. Whatever happened to this supposedly Arts-supporting Labour-led government? https://t.co/… 4 hours ago
- RT @TinaMakereti: Terrible outcome from @CreativeNZ arts grants and not the only one this week. Arts grants system too ad hoc for important… 5 hours ago
- I’ve made a terrible mistake, I remembered just earlier that I was meant to go to a lunch on Tuesday with, uhh, Camilla Parker Bowles 20 hours ago
- This is one of the best author photos I have ever seen, of @FreyaDalySad at Carlucci Land, by Ebony Lamb vup.victoria.ac.nz/freya-daly-sad… 2 days ago
- Sometimes I just think, the car truly is the asshole’s vehicle of choice 2 days ago
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Tag Archives: poetry
A bike ride with James Brown
I’ve been a big fan of James Brown’s poems for a long time. The first poem of his I read was ‘Loneliness’, in 2001. It’s probably still his most well known poem, all these years later. I wonder if James is … Continue reading
A stick of dynamite
This blog has been very quiet lately, I know. In the last couple of months all of my confidence in writing, and in having anything of worth to say, has just been detonated. If we think of confidence as being … Continue reading
